We@UIC: What Do We Gain from the Architectural Competition When We Lose?
Panel Discussion
Kelly Bair, Vincent Calabro, Paul Dolick, Chris Frye, Paul Preissner
Moderator: Kelly Bair
Wednesday, October 9, 1pm
1100 A+DS
“Baby, even the losers
Get lucky sometimes
Even the losers
Keep a little bit of pride
They get lucky sometimes…”
-Tom Petty, Even the Losers on Damn the Torpedoes album, 1979.
The architectural competition as a process for generating both buildings and ideas about buildings has been around for a long time (think, The Parthenon). Contentious as they’ve become, they persist in both our discipline and profession. This episode of WE @ UIC brings together five “losers” from the recent Oak Park Field Center Competition, a public call from the Oak Park Parks District for design proposals to replace a building that was the result of the same competition nearly 100 years ago. Kelly Bair (BairBalliet), Vincent Calabro (Office of Things), Paul Dolick (Ettedgui-Dolick), Chris Frye ((r)evolution architecture), Paul Preissner (Paul Preissner Architects) will present their proposals for the Field Center and discuss what they gain when they lose.